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Owd Codger

If yoo are on about Mike Danson, and he wants a stadium, and I presume you mean a stadium for the Rugby Club, then the answer would be simple for him then wouldn't it ?

He would just build one somewhere wouldn't he, and move the Wigan Warriors into it, or if the opposite were true, and his love is for the football club, then in which case he would move Wigan Athletic into a new (hypothetical) stadium.

In any case the council have control over the stadium, the same way that they kept the land on which the Galleries was built, the land belonged to Wigan Council, the car park on the roof belonged to Wigan Council, and the shopping centre in between belonged to the Galleries Development Corporation, which was eventually bought by the council for a song.